There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPANNeed to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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